Jordan's foreign minister on Thursday called on the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) to reverse a decision to cut food subsidies to Syrian refugees by Aug. 1. The WFP office in Amman...
BEIRUT — Following the daycare scandal that surfaced earlier this week, caretaker Health Minister Firass Abiad on Thursday announced that his ministry has taken a series of decisions to better...
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces arrested a man who allegedly mistakenly shot his nephew in Al-Qammoua, Akkar earlier in June, the Information Division said in a statement Thursday. The...
As much of the world swelters in record temperatures, spare a thought for Issam Genedi, who ekes out a living washing cars in one of the planet's hottest regions, the Gulf....
Iraq is in the grip of a severe water shortage which has left crop growers and food producers such as Iraqi fish farmer Qasem Karam facing the loss of their livelihoods. Walking over dusty...
After watching the 2015 Oscar-winning movie The Big Short, which chronicled the collapse of the housing bubble in 2008, Danielle Hatem was changed. She recalls noticing that the movie left her...
Trade ties between France and Gulf Arab states, namely Qatar and the UAE, are expanding year-on-year, France's trade minister told AFP on Thursday, praising the deepening partnership as "good...
BEIRUT — On Wednesday, a 16 point resolution on Lebanon was passed by the European Parliament. The resolution deals with various issues, including the political crisis and the Beirut blast. The...
Egypt on Thursday embarked on a fresh bid to halt fighting between Sudan's warring factions and contain the humanitarian crisis it has unleashed, using a summit of neighboring states to try to...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to discuss energy markets on a trip to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar later this month, aiming to offer Japanese technologies for net zero...
BEIRUT — Two French members of the European Parliament (EP), Thierry Mariani and François-Xavier Bellamy, traded spars online on Wednesday over a resolution vote that day that in part concerned the...
BEIRUT — The International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday transported through Naqoura's main gate the body of a Lebanese man who fled to Israel in 2000, the state-run National News Agency...
Despite Lebanon’s economic collapse since 2019, tourism skyrocketed this year. In June, tourism professionals said some two million visitors are expected this summer, the highest figures since...
BEIRUT — As expected, a Telecoms Ministry commission approved a tender by two subsidiaries of the French logistics giant CMA CGM to take over Lebanon's postal services from the previous contracting...
DAMASCUS — Nesma Daher survived years of war in a Damascus suburb that was on the frontlines of Syria's conflict. But well after the guns fell silent in her area and even as her country's regional...
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea accused Hezbollah and its ally Amal of blocking the presidential election, and rejected the party's calls for dialogue, in an interview broadcast on...
BEIRUT — The Lebanese Army and security forces on early Thursday morning halted an irregular migrant boat from taking to sea off the coast of Abdeh in Akkar, a security source and eyewitnesses told...
The UN human rights office said on Thursday at least 87 people including ethnic Masalits were buried in what it described as a mass grave in Sudan's West Darfur, saying it had credible information...
Egypt has invited war-torn Sudan's neighbors for a summit Thursday to "stop the bloodshed," the presidency said, with Ethiopia's premier Abiy Ahmed in Cairo despite tensions over a massive Nile...
Mohammed Hamid Nour is only 23, but he is already nostalgic for how Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes once were before drought dried them up, decimating his herd of water buffaloes....
BEIRUT — Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah gave a live televised speech Wednesday night, in which he ruled out any negotiations on the disputed land border between Lebanon and Israeli...
Who is Nada Kano, the person and artist? I’m a dance teacher and choreographer. I am what I do. Dance defines me completely, I’ve given everything for it, it’s the center of my life....
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign u p. A Hezbollah spokesperson confirmed to L’Orient Today that three party members were injured yesterday after Israeli army...
Lebanon stuck between a rock and a hard place: A US disarmament plan, or an extended expansion to the war?
Lebanese, Israeli delegation to meet in Washington; Lebanon files UN complaint against Iran: Everything you need to know this Thursday
